Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
Major contradiction. Either they were bright thinking of becoming computer engineer, or it is an absolute lie. These girls were more interested in earning quick money no matter what from where it was coming. Women of dignity would rather prefer to die (there are many such recent suicide cases in Pakistan, AP has opened a thread on them.) rather than selling sex for money.
brutal..very brutal!
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
Poor girls. :(
Moral: Don't go out like that especially on fake documents.
Don't send your girls out to work like that, no one becomes engineer or lawyer like that. How naive people can be? Were there no red flags for these people?
^This.
Most people know that one does not become an engineer or lawyer like that. The fact that these girls and their parents didn't and that the shadyness of the job offer didn't raise any red flags to them indicates that they were very naive and not very educated. Hence, my comment that ignorance and naivety played a large part in making it so easy for the girls to become prey to this Ayesha woman and made it easy for her to control them.
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
i think people with little education and the simple folks who haven't been been exposed to scams can easily fall victim to these unscrupulous middle-men/women like Ayesha. Ayesha had also threatened to kill her entire family if these girls tried to be smart. that threat alone was enough to shut their mouth.
i know a washer-man [launderer] back home who was quite smart but fell victim to this scam artist. he paid 1 lac rupees to go to Saudi Arabia...he was taken to Mumbai where he was let go with no money.
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
People can dream whatever they like. It doesn't mean that they are street smart or that they even understand enough to know how to go about it. While at uni, I volunteered with an organisation that helped refugees settle in Britain. More than once I had people, who were not educated and hardly spoke any English, tell me that they wanted/planned to become engineers, architects, and things of that nature. People can have aspirations but still be quite naive and unworldly.
Secondly, the article doesn't state whether the girls were from a large town or a village and if it's the latter, it makes it even more likely that they were too naive to know better. After all, they were very trusting and rather quickly accepted that Ayesha woman's help almost without question when most people would question such a "too good to be true" offer.
I couldn't agree more with what you wrote! Like your thinking!
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
Major contradiction. Either they were bright thinking of becoming computer engineer, or it is an absolute lie. These girls were more interested in earning quick money no matter what from where it was coming. Women of dignity would rather prefer to die (there are many such recent suicide cases in Pakistan, AP has opened a thread on them.) rather than selling sex for money.
We don't live in an Indian movie. It's a natural instinct to fight to survive and if survival means to keep your head down then so be it. I would rather a life be saved then a person kill themselves for faux honour to appease random people who have no business with the matter.
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
I remember the first person I saw after I stepped out of the aeroplane in Dubai was a south asian girl with a blonde wig in a pink mini skirt crying her eyes out. I have no idea what was wrong but my parents and I figured she wasn't a tourist but a prostitute. We wanted to ask what was wrong but we hesitated and she was gone. I sometimes wished we hadn't stopped ourselves.
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
We don't live in an Indian movie. It's a natural instinct to fight to survive and if survival means to keep your head down then so be it. I would rather a life be saved then a person kill themselves for faux honour to appease random people who have no business with the matter.
sometimes they commit suicide to save their honor and it's the victim's decision to end his/her life which is not right as far as religion is concerned. one must live and fight for his/her rights.
today, a 17 year old Pakistani woman cricketer, Halima Rafiq, committed suicide in Multan. she was a victim of sexual harassment by cricket board authorities.
Re: Agony of Pakistani women enslaved by Dubai sex trade (CRAZY!)
sometimes they commit suicide to save their honor and it's the victim's decision to end his/her life which is not right as far as religion is concerned. one must live and fight for his/her rights.
today, a 17 year old Pakistani woman cricketer, Halima Rafiq, committed suicide in Multan. she was a victim of sexual harassment by cricket board authorities.
Seriously it's such an ajeeb drama that someone else commits the crime and the woman has to atone for it. I know suicide is considered a sin in such a black and white way in our society but when it comes to time for rape cases it suddenly becomes a murky issue. I definitely think people who push someone so far that they commit suicide are going to get the lion's share of the responsibility in the hereafter.